Hybrid: Markham, Ontario

Job Description:

Job Summary

As a key member of the ERP Finance Implementation team, the Manager Financial Systems will play a pivotal role in the successful implementation and migration from NAVII to Microsoft Dynamics 365. They will support the end-users and work with stakeholders to ensure Finance processes and information flow efficiently and accurately. They will support the system implementation project of Dynamics 365 by designing processes, requirement gathering and testing. This role will report to the Director, Finance Operations and Systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting the ERP implementation of Dynamics 365 for finance and accounting teams, EDI integrations and report development and maintenance.
• Manages assigned project mandate, timeline and implementation.
• Be the key Finance point of contact for ERP include general ledger and chart of accounts maintenance, data setup and system configurations along with troubleshooting, investigating, and solving system issues for financial transactions and information. Document any defects identified and work with IT on their resolution.
• Perform research, documents business requirements, reviews and assesses designs/amendments to business processes related to financial systems and translates business requirements into solutions.
• Oversee project governance practices and framework to ensure consistency, quality, reliability, integrity and mitigate identified risks and facilitate project planning for the finance team.
• Engages with technology team to support project milestones including system design, build, enhancements, gap analysis and compliance including but not limited to requirement gathering, design, UAT testing, post go-live support/hypercare, training and documentation under Agile environment.
• Perform the Finance Business Analyst role with respect to ERP Project including evaluating business processes; gathering end user requirements; identifying areas for improvement; supporting solution design; writing User Acceptance test scripts and performing and leading business users in User Acceptance testing.
• Collaborate with other Business Analysts, application developers and outside consultants as needed on customizations,

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Business Information Systems or related field

• CPA designation required.
• 5 years of relevant experience including project management and financial systems implementation required.

• Hands-on experience with ERP systems as super user or implementor, preferably Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365.
• Experience in developing and understanding internal controls and/or designing access & controls.
• Understanding of accounting and finance processes including day-to-day processes and month-end.
• Proficiency in SQL, Excel (Power User), Tableau, and Microsoft Access.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and oral/written/presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, project-driven environment.
• Experience with medium-to-large retail organizations is preferred.

Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills – be able to collaborate and communicate clearly and effectively with multiple stakeholders including IT, accounting and finance, external consults, project team etc.
• Excellent problem solving and identification skills – the ability to identify system issues in various stages of a project and work together with team to understand the issue to solution.
• Project management skills – ability to prioritize and organize tasks with competing deadlines and communicate any resource constraints.
• Knowledge of project management principles and practices involving all forms of project delivery (i.e. waterfall, agile)
• Attention to detail –certain tests and documentation need to be analyzed at the transactional level; candidate must be able to drill down to the details.
• Technical knowledge - ability to understand data flow between systems and tables and the finance impact to general ledger and reporting.
• High level of integrity and professionalism.